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    12 Questions: Vince Palacios
    James May Gallery
    • Jan 31
    • 4 min

    12 Questions: Vince Palacios

    #contemporaryceramics #artistblog #creativelife #artistlife #galleryblog #fineart #vincepalaciosart #ceramics #caliartist #onlineexhibtion #artsy #artduringcovid Vince Palacios has been working in the field of ceramic art since 1988. Palacios received his Masters of Ceramic Art from Alfred University and his BFA in ceramics at California State University at Long Beach. He now serves as Professor of the Ceramics Department at El Camino College in Torrance California. He came t
    12 Questions: Andrea Alonge
    James May Gallery
    • Jan 19
    • 8 min

    12 Questions: Andrea Alonge

    #12questions #artistblog #galleryblog #creativewisdom #artinapandemic #artsy #creativelife #andreaalongeart #contemporarytextiles #contemporaryart #theartoffailure Andrea Alonge was born in Mesa, AZ and currently lives and works in Portland, OR. She received her BFA from The School Of The Art Institute Of Chicago in 2013, and her MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art in 2015. She is an artist primarily working with fiber and textiles, and is a member of Carnation Contemporary in
    12 Questions: Craig Hill
    James May Gallery
    • Dec 29, 2020
    • 3 min

    12 Questions: Craig Hill

    #artistlife #creativelife #artistblog #galleryblog #craighillart #artsy #onlineexhibition #12questions Craig Hill is a visual artist working in painting, collage, and mixed media sculpture. His work juxtaposes varied modes of representation, creating a visual mash-up that highlights how certain iconography expresses American belief structures. His work is filled with visual contradictions and playful circumstances that are arranged in a single anxious moment. In combining his
    12 Questions: Meredith Olinger
    James May Gallery
    • Dec 7, 2020
    • 3 min

    12 Questions: Meredith Olinger

    #memphisartist #artistlife #creativewisdom #artistblog #galleryblog #contemporaryart #creativelife #artinthetimeofcovid #mereditholinger #jamesmaygalleryblog Meredith Olinger is an artist living and working in Memphis, TN. Olinger works primarily with wallpaper of her own design. Her work deals with the dependence of art and design on each other, handmade versus digital production, and blurs the line between painting and installation. Olinger has been included in many group s
    12 Questions: Michael Banning
    James May Gallery
    • Oct 2, 2020
    • 6 min

    12 Questions: Michael Banning

    #contemporaryrealism #painting #oilpainting #realism #artistblog #galleryblog #artistwisdom #creativelife Michael Banning was born in Boulder, Colorado in 1966. He received his BFA from the University of Colorado, Boulder and his MFA from Minneapolis College of Art and Design. Banning’s oil paintings and drawings of contemporary American urban, industrial, and domestic landscapes have been exhibited in solo exhibitions in Chicago, Denver, Minneapolis, and New York City. His w
    12 Questions: Ute Bertog
    James May Gallery
    • Sep 10, 2020
    • 6 min

    12 Questions: Ute Bertog

    #abstractpainting #artistblog #abstraction #language #utebertog #contemporarypainting #artsy #interiordesign #creativewisdom #12questions 1. What are 1-3 books that have influenced your life? What are you reading or watching right now? I feel myself shying away from answering because there are just so many great books which have become a part of me over time. It’s so hard to choose. One book that comes to mind from recent times is ‘What you can see from here’ by Mariana Leky
    12 Questions: Lisa Bergant Koi
    James May Gallery
    • Jul 13, 2020
    • 5 min

    12 Questions: Lisa Bergant Koi

    #artistblog #creativelife #artistwisdom #abstractpainting #galleryblog #artistlife #jamesmaygallery #artcollector #artkeepsgoing #12questions #creativewisdom #artmatters #supportartists 1. What are 1-3 books that have influenced your life? What are you reading or  watching right now? Physics for Poets by Robert H. March has me captivated, and I’m keeping up with my subscription to The New Yorker. I also belong to an artist reading group. We get together every few months to c
    12 Questions: Katherine Duclos
    James May Gallery
    • May 11, 2020
    • 5 min

    12 Questions: Katherine Duclos

    #12questions #artistblog #creativewisdom #galleryblog #jamesmaygallery #rockcollection #artcollector #abstractpainting #minimalism #katherineduclosrosenbaum #supportthearts #smallworksexhibition #artkeepsgoing #artsy We are excited about our new partnership with Katherine! She is currently residing in Vancouver, BC and I was immediately drawn to her work. I hope you enjoy learning more about her through our blog and if you would like more information such as a more formal sta
    12 Questions: Jen Broemel
    James May Gallery
    • Apr 25, 2020
    • 5 min

    12 Questions: Jen Broemel

    #artistblog #supportartists #contemporarytextiles #textiles #creativewisdom #galleryblog We are really excited to bring on Jen Broemel as a part of our gallery! Her brightly colored textiles instantly won us over and we are very grateful to be working with her. We hope you enjoy her work and words. "My intention is to inspire others to look at the world around them more carefully, more mindfully, to see the extraordinary in the discarded, to notice the beauty in the mundane. 
    12 Questions: Brett Angell
    James May Gallery
    • Apr 13, 2020
    • 4 min

    12 Questions: Brett Angell

    #contemporaryrealism #artistblog #galleryblog #artistlife #creativewisdom #painting #assemblage #surrealism #surrealismnow #newrealism #outerspace #brettangell #JMG We are excited to present a new artist we have begun to represent! Brett Angell is originally from Milwaukee, WI and was taught by Tom Uttech. We were immediately struck by the artist's imaginative landscapes in his assembled frames. Brett creates landscapes that make you question the divisions between what is rea
    12 Questions: Elyse-Krista Mische
    James May Gallery
    • Apr 10, 2020
    • 6 min

    12 Questions: Elyse-Krista Mische

    #videoart #artistblog #creativewisdom #artistlife #mixedmediaartist #jamesmaygalleryblog 1. What are 1-3 books that have influenced your life? What are you reading or watching right now? The first book that influenced my life was actually a magazine, a National Geographic for Kids magazine about the extinction of dinosaurs. It was 1994 or 1995, I was six or seven years old and this was the first time I realized the permanence and seriousness of death. The second book was Sa
    12 Questions: Cristian Andersson
    James May Gallery
    • Mar 25, 2020
    • 8 min

    12 Questions: Cristian Andersson

    #artistblog #creativecommunity #abstractpainting #abstractexpressionism #creativewisdom 1. What are 1-3 books that have influenced your life? What are you reading or watching right now? Currently, I am working through two books. I have quite a backlog of things to read, as many people do, and juggle a few different styles of writings at a time. Bending Concepts: The Held Essays of Visual Art, 2011–2017, a collection of editorials that have been published in the art journal th
    12 Questions: Melissa Dorn
    James May Gallery
    • Feb 14, 2020
    • 3 min

    12 Questions: Melissa Dorn

    #contemporaryart #painter #sculptor #artistlife #artistblog #jamesmaygallery #melissadorn 1. What are 1-3 books that have influenced your life? Daybook by Anne Truitt Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer 2. What are you currently working on? I’m working on a series of Mop Portraits using acrylic, mop strands and industrial felt. This is a continuation of a larger series based on industrial mops and my fascination with them. 3. How has failure set you up for later suc
    12 Questions: Karla Lauden
    James May Gallery
    • Feb 4, 2020
    • 4 min

    12 Questions: Karla Lauden

    #womenpaintingwomen #creativewisdom #figurativepainter #artistblog #karlalauden #jamesmaygallery #wisconsinartist #midwestartist #lifeexperience 1. What are 1-3 books that have influenced your life? The Velveteen Rabbit, a book given to me by my late sister that she gave to me on my graduation (with her inscription), Love Letters from my husband, and my Grandpa Hilmer Halverson's Norwegian Hymnal  (leather bound, name scripted, and written in Norwegian). 2. What are you curre
    12 Questions: Heather Macali
    James May Gallery
    • Jan 19, 2020
    • 3 min

    12 Questions: Heather Macali

    #contemporarytextiles #jacquardweaving #midwestartist #artistlife #artistblog #creativewisdom #heathermacali #jamesmaygallery 1) What are 1-3 books that have influenced your life? Miss Frizzle series, Rainbow Brite, and The 5 Love Languages. 2) What are you currently working on? I am working on a couple projects. 1 - Tetromino - A Tetris and Litebright inspired interactive installation. 2 - I am researching soft sculpture with the technique of jacquard weaving. The textiles w
    12 Questions: Monika Meler
    James May Gallery
    • Jan 13, 2020
    • 5 min

    12 Questions: Monika Meler

    I like to think of my entire history as an artist as a history of failure. This way, each thing I make doesn't hold precious value...
    12 Questions: Kyle McKenzie
    James May Gallery
    • Oct 8, 2019
    • 3 min

    12 Questions: Kyle McKenzie

    #artistblog #contemporarypainting #creativelife #painting #inspiration #artistlife 1. What are 1-3 books that have influenced your life? "What Painting Is" by James Elkins 2. What are you currently working on? I’ve been dabbling in different things lately. My main studio work has been abstract landscapes based on memory. Also, I want to go deeper into plein air painting and am starting to organize a few murals at Missouri Southern State University (where I teach). 3. How has
    12 Questions: Mollie Oblinger
    James May Gallery
    • Sep 25, 2019
    • 2 min

    12 Questions: Mollie Oblinger

    #artistblog #ceramicsculpture #creativelife #mixedmediasculpture #environmentalart 1. What are 1-3 books that have influenced your life? Martin Dresslerby Steven Millhauser was an important book to me during graduate school. I loved Simple Pictures are Bestby Nancy Willard Illustrated by Tomie dePaola when I was a kid, but as I look at it now it is clear that it has had an impact on my artwork. 2. What are you currently working on? I just finished a large series working wit
    12 Questions: Matteo Neivert
    James May Gallery
    • Aug 13, 2019
    • 4 min

    12 Questions: Matteo Neivert

    #creativelife #artistblog #12questions #painter #newrealism #surrealism #matteoneivert #biosphere #jamesmaygallery #botanyofdesire 1. What are 1-3 books that have influenced your life? Hmmmm. This is a very hard question. 'Atlantis’ by Mark Dotty ‘The Lives of the Artists’ by Giorgio Vasari ‘When You Are Engulfed in Flames’ by David Sedaris 2. What are you currently working on? Art-wise, I am working on paintings that illustrate the strength and delicacy of our current natura
    12 Questions: Martin Kahnle
    James May Gallery
    • Aug 5, 2019
    • 3 min

    12 Questions: Martin Kahnle

    #artistblog #creativelife #inspiration #martinkahnle #jamesmaygallery #artistlife #landscapepaitning 1. What are 1-3 books that have influenced your life? [1] A Bigger Message: Conversations with David Hockney by Martin Gayford, [2] The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Alex Haley and Malcolm X, and [3] Crazy from the Heat by David Lee Roth. 2. What are you currently working on? Later this year I plan to continue my landscape work but on a much bigger scale. This summer I am test
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